{{short description|British poet and literary translator|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Robert Chandler''' (born 1953) is a British poet and [[literary translator]]. He is the editor of ''Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida'' (Penguin) and the author of the short biography of ''[[Alexander Pushkin]]'' (Hesperus).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tonkin |first1=Boyd |title=Alexander Pushkin, By Robert Chandler |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/alexander-pushkin-by-robert-chandler-1823835.html |work=The Independent |date=20 November 2009}}</ref> He is also the editor of the literary magazine ''[[Cardinal Points]]''.
His translations include numerous works by [[Andrei Platonov]], [[Vasily Grossman|Vasily Grossman's]] ''[[Stalingrad (Grossman novel)|Stalingrad]]'' (''For a Just Cause''), ''[[Life and Fate]]'' and ''The People Immortal'' (as well as the novel ''Everything Flows'', short stories, essays and war journalism), and [[Alexander Pushkin|Pushkin's]] ''[[The Captain's Daughter]]''. Chandler's co-translation of Platonov's ''Soul'' was chosen in 2004 as “best translation of the year from a Slavonic language” by the [[AATSEEL|American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages]] (AATSEEL). His translation of [[Hamid Ismailov]]’s ''[[The Railway (novel)|The Railway]]'' won the AATSEEL prize for Best Translation into English in 2007,<ref name=AATSEEL2007/> and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 [[Rossica Translation Prize]]. In 2016 he published a translation of Teffi's memoir of the first days after the Russian Revolution, ''Memories: from Moscow to the Black Sea'' (NYRB). Chandler’s translations of ''[[Sappho]]'' and ''[[Guillaume Apollinaire]]'' are published in the [[Everyman’s Poetry]] series.
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==External links== * [https://shop.pushkinhouse.org/blogs/bookshop-newsletter-interviews/interview-with-robert-chandler Q&A with Chandler about his translation of Teffi’s stories, A Time Was No More, published in April 2024.] * [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/18/andrei-platonov-robert-chandler Interview with Chandler on Platonov] * [http://www.stosvet.net/12/chandler/ Article by Chandler on translating Pushkin's ''The Captain's Daughter'']
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